
Life is God’s gift to you. The way you live your life is your gift to God. Make it a fantastic one.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998) was an American author and motivational speaker.

Life is God’s gift to you. The way you live your life is your gift to God. Make it a fantastic one.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998) was an American author and motivational speaker.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
From Matthew 22:36-37: “‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'”
John Ortberg (born 1957) is an American pastor as well as a Christian author and speaker.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.
From 1 John 2:1-3: “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we obey His commandments.”
Elizabeth George (born 1944) is an American Christian author and speaker.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop. You have to stay curious and hungry.
Mario Andretti (born 1940) is an American race car driver. Now retired, his career is one of the most success in all of auto racing.

If your mind is filled with the Word of God, then it can’t be filled with impure thoughts.
From Proverbs 30:5: “Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.”
David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.

If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly.
From 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher. Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons. Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.
Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an American track and field athlete. During the 1936 summer Olympics, he became the first athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad.

It is only through Scripture, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that we receive the grace to trust God in everything.
From Hebrews 10:39: “But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.”

I am with lanterns, looking for myself.
To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet. Little known during her life, Dickinson has become to be regarded as one of America’s most respected poets.